Brian and Barbara Bolger weren’t shocked when their son, Jesse, told them he wanted to become a priest. Parish priests had always been close friends of the family, they said, and Mr. Bolger’s uncle was also a clergyman who sometimes played basketball with the Bolgers.Read More

Leaving home hours before sunrise on Oct. 27, 14 members of the Notre Dame Preparatory School’s crew team were traveling north to compete in the Thomas Eakins’ Head of the Schuylkill Regatta. It’s an annual trek for the Towson Blazers’ club team but this year, the boats never hit the water.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s planned trip to the Holy Land was slowly taking shape in February, and the tentative schedule included a number of important pastoral and interreligious events.Read More

A funeral Mass for Sister Mary Irene Pekar, S.S.N.D., was offered Oct. 23 at the Villa Notre Dame Chapel in Wilton, Conn. Sister Mary Irene died on Oct. 19; she was 89.Read More

Stand-up comedian Matt Baetz, a 1996 graduate of Calvert Hall College High School, Baltimore, will join fellow comedian and military man Jody Fuller on a tour to the Middle East Feb. 9-March 5 to entertain troops.Read More

GREEN BAY, Wis. – Most wins by a starting quarterback. Most consecutive games played by a quarterback. Most touchdown passes thrown.Read More

BRAINTREE, Mass. – A staff reporter with The Pilot, the newspaper of the Boston Archdiocese, will be deployed to Iraq to serve with the U.S. Army, and his mission will be to chronicle the lives and day-to-day experiences of a unit of soldiers over the next year.Read More

If unwanted computers, tossed televisions and mediocre microwaves fill a 104,000 foot warehouse, can you imagine what they’d do to a landfill?Read More